Creationist DMCA abuse

This video is a result of a collaboration between the following YouTube users;

AndromedasWake, AronRa, cdk007, djarm67, DonExodus2, dprjones, ExtantDodo, potholer54, ThetaOmega and Thunderf00t

We all share an interest in science and we have respect for the advancements and benefits that science has brought us. The internet is one example of this.

We believe that the internet offers extraordinary and valuable opportunities for education, and through sites such as YouTube, a forum for open discussion and exchange of views. In order for people to fully benefit from the internet, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and a lack of censorship are essential.
We are concerned that there are some people who are attempting to prohibit free speech on the internet. They are doing so by the unwarranted service of notices under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, ("DMCA").

We recognise that Copyright is an important legal right. The DMCA provides a method for copyright owners to protect their work against plagiarism and exploitation.

However, we are also aware that some people are misusing the DMCA. They are issuing notices that are not a legitimate attempt to protect their copyright, but are a cynical way of attempting to prevent adverse comment on, and criticism of, their views. They are using it maliciously, wrongly and probably illegally. We consider such actions to be abhorrent. It is a sick and cowardly way of attempting to restrict free speech and limit the potential of the internet for education.

Some of us have been subjected to such notices.

We are sure that our own experiences are not the only occasions when the DMCA has been misused.

We would like to know how often it is happening? Who else has been served with DMCA notices? Who served these notices? What happened as a result?

We would like to hear from you by contacting us at this channel DMCAabuse if you have been served with a DMCA notice that you consider was issued in order to prohibit free expression rather than to protect copyright. (Any information you send us will be treated with confidentiality and will not be disclosed without your prior permission.)

We believe that opportunity for education, freedom of expression and freedom of speech are causes worth protecting. We want to do what we can to protect them.

Please help us do that.

Thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/DMCAabuse

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• potholer54
• djarm67
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• ExtantDodo
• ThetaOmega
• cdk007
• evolution
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[rasalghul5555]

Awesome Vid, I support you guys 1000%!

I really hope YouTube/ Google are run by smart enough people to know that what they have is so incredibly powerful - more so then any other forum for discussion that had existed in mankind's history so far.

SAY NO TO CENSORSHIP YOUTUBE!

[sockpuppetsfromhell]

LMFAO! 8999333c is SUSPENDED!

[YodatheJedi12]

When did "Answers in Genesis" file a DMCA complaint?

[kingrex2005]

1000000 peole will hear about this. Ya damn right, we will!

[Perrine234]

More votebots. When is YouTube going to do something about this?!

[romanempiresucks]

let us assume that your first assumption is correct and I know nothing about evolution. why should I get off youtube and thus never learn what evolution is? I am here to learn and to teach what I know fair exchange I would think....

[SenileDude]

(romanempiresucks) you obviously have NO idea what the hell evolution is, so please, get the fuck off of youtube, before you start posting videos about your beliefs and get slammed by people who actually know what the hell they're talking about....

[y0utubecitizen]

Free speech forever!!!

[romanempiresucks]

that was my point they dont steal peoples money like other televangelists didnt you read my comment I said they dont waste peoples money on big houses and so on ray said he hates all that.

[romanempiresucks]

"Saying "god or evolution"." well isnt that what the debate is about? all atheists must accept evolution none can accept creationism as they dont believe in the creator using the same logic christians must reject creationism in order to become atheist. although some will say God used evolution my point is stages....

[1RadicalOne]

"how do they attack science"

With lines like "science doesn't have the answers", "science can't prove anything", and "science is a false prophet".

"televangelists (not true christians)"

It's amusing how they're branded "not true christians" only AFTER they're exposed.

PS

Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort are televangelists, too.